Digg DiggIt’s 8 AM. Do you know where your mind is as your body heads to work? What’s consuming your thoughts? Here’s my Sanctum Sunday Contemplative post on starting your workday in the wake of the work-life merge. What if your life, or the life of someone else depended on you being completely focused, present…
Our work-life balance took a hit in the wake of the debt-ceiling debate, U-S downgrade, earthquake and Hurricane Irene. The uncertainty seems to just build upon itself day by day as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches. Nerves are frayed and workplace stress is on the rise. Time to take a breath, but you have…
My Google alerts for stress, meditation and work-life balance have been on the rise lately and I think the tenuous state of the economy is at the core. Although Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke was cautiously optimistic about the GDP in the second half of the year, many are stressing about personal finances and their…
The very public apology from Tiger Woods for his marital wavering caught the world in a whiz of water cooler conversation on his governing belief system of Buddhism and meditation.
Delight streamed through my veins when I opened the business section of the Sunday New York Times. It wasn’t the raging economic debate over monetary policy, but the fact that Edwin Catmull, who heads up Pixar Animation studios and Walt Disney Animation had taken a stab at meditation.
You know times are tough in the sensory overload department when New York Times Food Writer Mark Bittman departs from his culinary ways to write about his experience of a “virtual break” from all the techno-stuff that weighs most of us down in our workplace or career.
Using Meditation as a Tool for Success
It’s no secret that alone-time might yield a more productive worklife. When you make time to recharge, you are bound to have more energy and clarity in your workday. I post a lot about meditation on this blog and the topic has taken more of a foothold recently in some mainstream boardrooms, and certainly in the media.
A time few days ago CNN and Fortune featured the practical benefits of meditation in a segment called Mind Over Business.
Ed Mills from Evolving times started a meme that asks, what would you do with an extra 36 hours each week? Pricilla Palmer from Personal Development tagged me on this and I’ve given it a lot of thought. Especially in the wake of all the writing I’ve done recently on conquering sensory overload in a 24/7 world.
For me, it’s less about a list than a way of being. I would take 24-hours of it and use it for complete silence. No news, no music, no cell phone, no Black Berry. It’s from that space of peace that I truly believe we can all attain limitless knowledge and peace. But it’s not something that comes overnight. We need lots of 24-hour periods to cultivate that stillness and creatively percolate. And the intention set during such a period is a crucial part of the process.
When you’re that still for a long period of time it feels as if there is no time. It’s stretched to another level of consciousness and becomes limitless. Have you ever noticed that time seems to fly when you’re at an exciting movie, taking a long day at the beach, or spending time with good friends?
